Re: EmacsW32 invocation options

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 09:18:47 +0200
> > From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
> > CC:  help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> >
> > I think it is one of the important features in the patched version that 
> > makes it quite a bit easier to get started using Emacs for new users. 
>
> This is not the issue I was talking about.  I was talking about the
> fact that you are actively promoting a variant of Emacs that behaves
> differently from what is described in the Emacs manual.  I think this
> is wrong, because it makes harder for newbies to learn Emacs, and
> makes it harder for us veterans to help those newbies when they ask
> questions.


I agree that it makes it a bit harder for you as a veteran to support 
the newbies. I have however tried to be very careful pointing out the 
(in fact small) differences.

When you say that it makes it harder for newbies to learn Emacs I 
disagree. The differences are not of that kind. I try to get users 
started quickly, that is the most important part of my distro.

I am actively promoting making it easy to get started with Emacs. I am 
not promoting my package as such and would be glad if it was that easy 
to get started with the standard distro.

And I have told that many times, in different words. Still you are 
continuing saying that I am "actively promoting a variant of Emacs". In 
my opinion that is a bit destructive.